Comments on: Dear Internets: It’s Not You, It’s Me

By: midori

midori — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:30:26 +0000

I’m so glad I came across this post. I’ve actually been heartaching about the way the internet used to be and how having an internet presence used to be a novel idea. Now everyone and their mom (including my mom) has a myspace/facebook/blog and for some reason it makes me sad. Maybe because blogging has lost its significance somehow. I don’t know.

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By: a

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:12:57 +0000

Persoblogs aren’t dead. They’re still a place to vent, to share stuff, to reassure yourself you’re not crazy or alone. They’re still an insight into the lives of others, similar to one’s own or vastly different. I don’t think the world (and condescending worldview) of the mega(money)blog touches the average small fry persoblogger.

That said, there must be all sorts of pressures in the stratosphere that LYD inhabits. So… thanks for all the funnies and the stories. You’ve been making me laugh and sniffle since I was 16 and now I’m heading to 23. See you in whatever medium you choose next.

By: chauka

chauka — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:09:33 +0000

You’re one of the funniest people I read, and I (really) hope you continue to write. But if you don’t, many thanks for providing me with good laughs and thoughtful insight.

By: Jill Matrix

Jill Matrix — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:58:28 +0000

I think about this stuff a lot. Those were the days. Sometimes I think I should have stuck it out and tried to “go big.” But …

Now I enjoy the irony of a templated blogspot blog. I don’t tell anyone local about it and I say whatever I have to say *somewhere* before my head explodes and hope for the best.

I think I have like 6 readers, and it’s kind of nice because it’s really just an outlet for me.

But the rush is gone and the landscape has shifted too much to get it back. Thanks for being part of it.

By: Juvin Chronicles » What’s in Your Blog Reader?

Juvin Chronicles » What’s in Your Blog Reader? — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:27:10 +0000

[...] I’ve never met but will probably follow as long as they keep writing, like Ernie, even if he’s not as inclined to put himself out there as he used to be, because I’ve read him since the beginning, and his blog feels like an old [...]

By: Stephanie Booth

Stephanie Booth — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:15:04 +0000

I find it really interesting how the appearance of new tools changes the way we express ourselves online. Over my eight years of blogging, I've clearly seen an evolution in what I write. Of course, we change as human beings, and that's to be taken into account too. But Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and YouTube (even Flickr!) have all had their impact. We tried to touch upon this subject during a panel at BlogTalk last spring, but I'm not completely happy with it -- it stayed a bit superficial, in my opinion. If anybody has research on this phenomenon or ideas to share, I'd be interested in hearing them. I guess the place to start is examining and analyzing what we blog for, and then seeing how some of these new post-blogging tools might be better at achieving some of these goals than good ol' blogging.

By: laserone

laserone — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:57:17 +0000

I found that over time, my moblog became my main way of “blogging” as opposed to my regular blog. Blame it on the cameraphone. After TextAmerica dot com died, my moblogging moved to flickr. I still flickr way more than I blog. Now I go back in my flickr archives to find out what I was doing when, like I did w/ my blog archives. I just recently started blogging again, but mainly because I enjoy it and want to write more.

I also find, like someone else said, that people are making more old-style “home pages” now. I think the reason for that is (and in my case is) because people are on SO many different social-networking sites and also people may have several subject-specific blogs. (I have a dog blog, a photo blog, a travel blog, an art blog etc.) So linking to all of those other online presences can be done from one “jump page” or “home page. Old home-pages linked to sites we found interesting, new home-pages link to ourselves as we exist on other sites.

I don’t know if my new blog will be like my old blog. One thing I AM doing, though, which I am enjoying, is I’m creating a “life stream”, where I’ve created one page where I list all my old blogs (including old backed-up archives) by date, so that anyone (but mainly myself) can go back as far as 1996 and see what was I was doing online. It’s kinda fun.

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:21:03 +0000

I am so ridiculously late to this party it’s almost embarrassing. But then again, it is, still, a party. Even if it’s no longer a mid 90′s student rave in a field and has matured instead to an asparagus scented town-house dinner party…

Interesting reading. I bring wine.

By: Purple & Private - Electrolicious

Purple & Private - Electrolicious — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:29:07 +0000

[...] to admit this, there’s no denying that Elish gets only the most superficial of news. Really, Ernie summed it up best over here, and Alison takes it one step further. Please go read what they’ve written, because it sums [...]